GlidePath Power Plant

2-1-2019 – GlidePath Changes Their Project

GlidePath has responded to the overwhelming negative community feedback to their fossil fuel Peaker plant proposal, and has changed the project to a battery-storage only project. While some questions remain, this is very welcome news, and shows the power of organizations like this one, and our coalition partners.

Then, e-mail the Ulster Town Supervisor, James Quigley 3rd. Just click the link, or if you wish, copy and paste: ulstersupervisor@townofulster.org. Tell him how you feel about this.

Latest Developments

12/9/2018 – The City of Kingston asks the state to require enhanced participation plan from Glidepath developers.Read More

12/4/2018 – Glidepath says their draft Environmental Impact Statement will not be ready until the first quarter of 2019. Read More

10/18/2018 – Town of Ulster Citizens.org members read statements at the town board meeting regarding GlidePath and the below zoning issue. Laura Hartmann directly discussed the zoning denial and citizen due process, Eileen Murphy,talked about environmental issues and global warming, and Dan Furman discussed how GlidePath is really a faux “utility company” with no fossil fuel experience.

10/12/2018 – As noted in the below, we’re concerned there is no designation in the Town of Ulster of what constitutes a “Utility Company Structure”. We asked the Zoning Board of Appeals to review such. They refused. Here’s Our Appeal.

9/14/2018 – We then petitioned the Zoning Board of Appeals to review the matter. Here’s Our Letter

On 8/16/2018, Town of Ulster Citizens.org presentedthis letterto the town, and asked that its contents (asking for a Moratorium due to Zoning issues) be discussed at that evening’s town board meeting. Not only was the letter NOT put on the agenda, supervisor Quigley refused to even discuss it or answer any questions regarding it, instead calling on the town lawyer to address questions.

Other Project Documents and History

This project has an interesting documented history, especially as it pertains to the NYS Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA).

Here is Glidepath’s original Draft Scope and Environmental Impact Form (which list potential impacts). Part 1and Part 2.

SEQRA calls for public comment and questions to be added to the draft scope. Here’s what we came up with. We worked countless hours to come up with thoughtful, pertinent questions on how this dangerous, unnecessary project would be built and run.

We weren’t the only ones with questions. Other local environmental and citizen organizations joined in. Here are Lincoln Park Scoping Comments from a joint effort of the following groups: Catskill Mountainkeeper, Coalition Against Pilgrim Pipelines – New York (CAPP-NY), Kingston Citizens, Kingston Land Trust, Riverkeeper, Scenic Hudson, and Woodstock Land Conservancy.

And here’s the final scopeafter our questions. Our questions were, in general terms, completely ignored by the lead agency (which is the town board). The Town Board ignoring the work it specifically asked citizens to do is a little strange.

We wrote this letter to James Quigley 3rd expressing our disappointment. To make sure he understood, Town of Ulster Citizens.org president Laura Hartmann read it at the May 2018 town board meeting.

BIG NEWS – Ulster County Executive Michael Hein has come out against the 20-megawatt electric-generating plant that Minnesota-based GlidePath Power Solutions wants to build along Frank Sottile Boulevard in the town of Ulster, and he’s asked two state agencies to step in. Read His Letter Here.